Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who are familiar with the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the body formerly responsible for making such funding decisions, the news is disturbing. RUS was known for its warm, inclusive spirit and for encouraging a maximum of student input. Its members were elected yearly from the female undergraduate population, and topics discussed at weekly meetings were openly publicized...
...invention has been touted in Science magazine and lauded on National Public Radio (NPR). It's not the latest software innovation, not the next generation cell phone, but tweezers. The familiar tool has been modified in an innovative way to aid the study of microscopic objects...
...opponents, who left claiming victory, believing that what they hate about globalization will now come into focus as clearly as the familiar arguments in favor of it--that freer trade creates jobs for everybody and lower prices for consumers. Indeed, free trade has been an important reason for the '90s boom. Even as Seattle assessed the damage on Friday, the Dow was soaring nearly 250 points on news that the unemployment rate was stuck at its 30-year low. But the protesters were in Seattle to insist that globalization has become another word for capitulation to the worst excesses...
...those titles aren't as familiar as Gershwin's or Porter's, there's reason for it. Historically, standards became standards by dint of three forces: cast albums and revivals of the musicals they arise from; jazz musicians mining the repertoire; and Frank Sinatra. But Coward's musicals are theatrically his weakest work; the harmonic simplicity of his tunes--one of the elements that give them their charm--provides scant inspiration for improvisers. And Sinatra recorded only two Coward songs...
...Those familiar with previous accounts of the 1918 contagion (Richard Collier's The Plague of the Spanish Lady or Alfred Crosby's America's Forgotten Pandemic) may be surprised to learn that science has yet to discover what made that particular flu virus so deadly. Though no longer a threat, the mass killer is, so to speak, still at large...